This is an analysis of the poem The Tulip Bed At Greeley Square that begins with:
You know that oasis, fresh and fair
In the city desert, as Greeley square? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd ee ff gg cc bb hh ii ee aa Xe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111010111 0010101101 111100101 110101111 100100101 1010110101 110011101 101100111 1001011001 110100101 11111111 111010101 100100101 1101011001 100100111 1110000101 110001111 1111101111 1111101111 010100101 00100010101 1110110111 111100101 1100101111 1100100101 1010100101 111101110 0100110111
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 78
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, and, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, we are repeated.
The author used the same word here at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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